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Jacob said to his family and to everyone else who was traveling with him:

Get rid of your foreign gods! Then make yourselves acceptable to worship God and put on clean clothes. Afterwards, we'll go to Bethel. I will build an altar there for God, who answered my prayers when I was in trouble and who has always been at my side.

So everyone gave Jacob their idols and their earrings,[a] and he buried them under the oak tree near Shechem.

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Footnotes

  1. 35.4 earrings: These would have had symbols of foreign gods on them.

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